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Prime Minister George Papandreou, speaking during an informal cabinet
meeting on Tuesday evening after coming directly from the airport upon
his return from Berlin where he attended the ceremony on the 20th
anniversary of the fall of the wall, said that "it is our duty to keep
alive the hope of every citizen."

Papandreou said that he had a meeting at the airport with Serb
President Boris Tadic, with whom he discussed the course of Serbia and
of the Western Balkans to the European Union.

Referring to his presence in Berlin, the prime minister said that the
"country's presence in the great changes that are taking place is of
special importance."

The informal cabinet meeting was aimed at, as the prime minister said,
making an initial assessment of the government's work over the short
period that the government has assumed its duties.

Papandreou stressed that despite the fact that the period is very
short, the assessment of the work is positive, since the government is
intervening on a daily basis and directly in the entire spectrum of
issues concerning the citizen and despite the difficult situation
prevailing in the country and which is not corresponding to its real
capabilities.

The prime minister further said that the government's absolute priority
is the observance of the programme for the first 100 days since, as he
pointed out, these commitments are a precondition for the next steps to
be taken.

Papandreou added that "our enemies" are untransparency, clientele
relations, inequalities and the small and big interests that want to
impose their will at the expense of national and public interest.

Greek stocks ended lower in the Athens Stock Exchange on Tuesday, with
the composite index of the market ending at 2,652.68 points, off 1.33
pct. Turnover was a low 196.9 million euros, of which 8.1 million euros
were block trades.